"Division of Franklin The Division of Franklin is an Australian electoral division in Tasmania. The division was one of the five established when the former Division of Tasmania was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for Sir John Franklin, the polar explorer who was Lt Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1843-46. The division is located in southern Tasmania around the state capital, Hobart. It is the only non-contiguous federal electoral division in Australia, with the two parts of the division separated by the Division of Denison, based around central Hobart. As at the 2016 election, slightly more than"
"Franklin River (Victoria) The Franklin River, a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, is located in the South Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The river rises in the Strzelecki Ranges south of Gunyah Gunyah and flows generally south through steep mountainous terrain in the Strzelecki State Forest in a highly meandering course, until it breaks out into open farmland, joined by one minor tributary, before emptying into the river mouth of Corner Inlet at , and then spilling into Bass Strait. The river descends over its combined course. There are many good fishing spots with good"
"public access. The river is traversed by the South Gippsland Highway west of . Franklin River (Victoria) The Franklin River, a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, is located in the South Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The river rises in the Strzelecki Ranges south of Gunyah Gunyah and flows generally south through steep mountainous terrain in the Strzelecki State Forest in a highly meandering course, until it breaks out into open farmland, joined by one minor tributary, before emptying into the river mouth of Corner Inlet at , and then spilling into Bass Strait. The"
"Franklin, Australian Capital Territory Franklin (postcode: 2913) is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. It is named after the novelist Miles Franklin. The streets in Franklin are named after writers. It comprises an area of approximately 256 hectares. It is bounded by Flemington Road to the north and east, Wells Station Drive to the south, and Gungahlin Drive to the west. Franklin is serviced by ACTION bus routes 57 (weekdays) and 958 (weekends). Flemington Road is serviced by the 200 series on weekdays, and 950 on weekends. Franklin will be one of the suburbs serviced by"
"Mount Franklin (Australian Capital Territory) Mount Franklin is a mountain with an elevation of in the Brindabella Ranges that is located on the border between the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, Australia. The summit of the mountain is located in the Australian Capital Territory. The mountain is located in the Bimberi Nature Reserve and the Namadgi National Park. A marked walking trail to the summit can be reached via Mount Franklin Road. The summit is accessible by bush walking trails and requires no specialised climbing skills. It is located close to Brindabella Station where the Australian author Miles"
"underlaid mostly by the Canberra Formation mudstone or volcanics from the late middle Silurian age. Franklin residents get preference for: Franklin, Australian Capital Territory Franklin (postcode: 2913) is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the district of Gungahlin. It is named after the novelist Miles Franklin. The streets in Franklin are named after writers. It comprises an area of approximately 256 hectares. It is bounded by Flemington Road to the north and east, Wells Station Drive to the south, and Gungahlin Drive to the west. Franklin is serviced by ACTION bus routes 57 (weekdays) and 958 (weekends). Flemington Road is"
"It serves as an interpretive centre and can provide park managers and emergency services personnel with a base to conduct search and rescue operations in the event of future bushfires. The ACT/NSW boundary passes through the Franklin Chalet ruin area. Nowadays, cross country skiing is possible at Mount Franklin and surrounding peaks in winter, if conditions allow. Mount Franklin (Australian Capital Territory) Mount Franklin is a mountain with an elevation of in the Brindabella Ranges that is located on the border between the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, Australia. The summit of the mountain is located in the"
"Franklin, Tasmania Franklin is a small township on the western side of the Huon River in the south-east of Tasmania, between Huonville and Geeveston. At the 2011 census, Franklin had a population of 337. It was named after Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Jane Franklin who subdivided a large property there formerly owned by John Price to settle families of modest means. The Franklins had a ketch named ""Huon Pine"" built at Port Davey to provide a direct link between the settlement at Hobart. ""Huon"" Post Office opened on 31 August 1848, was renamed ""Franklin-Huon"" in 1853 and"
"Franklin Harbor Conservation Park Franklin Harbor Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Cowell about south of the town centre in Cowell. The conservation park consists of land on a peninsula that encloses the south east side of Franklin Harbor and on four islands within Franklin Harbor including Entrance Island. The conservation park occupies land in Sections 258, 259, 260 and 261 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Playford. The conservation park was proclaimed on 22 January 1976 under"
"District Council of Franklin Harbour The District Council of Franklin Harbour is a local government area in South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula. Cowell is the major population centre of an agricultural district based on farming wheat and sheep, supplemented by a fishing and oyster farming industries. The district's coastal towns including Cowell and Lucky Bay attract large numbers of tourists during school holidays, with the new Spencer Gulf ferry service increasing traffic to these areas since 2006. Franklin Harbour itself was first sighted by Matthew Flinders in 1802 and subsequently named after his midshipman and nephew, John Franklin, by"
"Hydro-Electricity Commission released a proposal to dam and inundate the Gordon () and Franklin () Rivers, leading the Tasmanian Wilderness Society and other conservation groups to mobilize one of Australia's largest conservation battles and acts of civil disobedience, focused heavily on ""...the protection of the Franklin River, one of Australia’s last truly wild rivers..."" resulting in the river being World Heritage listed (as part of the Tasmanian Wilderness world heritage area) and a subsequent Australian High Court decision preventing the damming of this wild river. The then Prime Minister of Australia, in December 1992, gave a 'Statement on the Environment'"
"Frankland, Western Australia Frankland is a small town in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. The town is in the shire of Cranbrook and is situated approximately 360 km from the State's capital, Perth, approximately 120 km north west of Albany, 83 km southwest of Kojonup, 19 km north of Rocky Gully and 90 km east of Manjimup. Frankland derives its name from its location 6 km east of the Frankland River. At the 2006 census, Frankland had a population of 380. Frankland River was named by the surgeon Dr Thomas Braidwood Wilson in 1829. Wilson, who was on"
"it near Hobart; it was her intent to civilise the colony. The village of Franklin, on the Huon River, is named in his honour, as is the Franklin River on the West Coast of Tasmania, one of the better known Tasmanian rivers due to the Franklin Dam controversy. Shortly after leaving his post as Governor of Tasmania Franklin revisited a cairn on Arthur's Seat, a small mountain just inside Port Phillip Bay, that he had visited as a midshipman with Captain Matthew Flinders in April 1802. On this trip he was accompanied by Captain Reid of The Briars and Andrew"
"Port Franklin, Victoria Port Franklin is a small fishing village south-east of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is about 2 km inland from the coastline of Corner Inlet. At the , Port Franklin had a population of 121. Port Franklin is situated on the banks of the Franklin River between Toora and Foster. The river is lined with small commercial fishing boats, privately owned pleasure craft as well as commercial charter vessels. The local community maintain the public hall, playground, tennis courts and parklands. The Post Office opened around 1902, was known as Bowen until 1910 and closed in 1993."
"Port Franklin, Victoria Port Franklin is a small fishing village south-east of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is about 2 km inland from the coastline of Corner Inlet. At the , Port Franklin had a population of 121. Port Franklin is situated on the banks of the Franklin River between Toora and Foster. The river is lined with small commercial fishing boats, privately owned pleasure craft as well as commercial charter vessels. The local community maintain the public hall, playground, tennis courts and parklands. The Post Office opened around 1902, was known as Bowen until 1910 and closed in 1993."
"Frankland River (Western Australia) The Frankland River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The Frankland River is the largest river by volume in the region and the eighth largest in the state. The traditional owners of the area are the Noongar people who know the river as Kwakoorillup. Mt Frankland was named in December 1829 by naval ship's surgeon Thomas Braidwood Wilson after the Surveyor General of Van Diemen’s Land George Frankland. Wilson explored the area in company with the Noongar Mokare from King George Sound, John Kent (officer in charge of the Commissariat at"
"Franklinford, Victoria Franklinford is a small community in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, located in the Shire of Hepburn. It was the site chosen by Edward Stone Parker to build the Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate station at Franklinford in January 1841 which was an important focus of the Dja Dja Wurrung people from 1841 until they were forcible resettled in 1864. It is located on the Midland Highway. At the , Franklinford had a population of 66 people. Mount Franklin was the territory of the Gunangara Gundidj clan of the Dja Dja Wurrung. Ethnographical and archaeological evidence indicates that frequent"
"Franklin County, Arkansas Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,125. The county has two county seats, Charleston and Ozark. The county was formed on December 19, 1837, and named for Benjamin Franklin, American statesman. To the north of the Arkansas River, which bisects Franklin County, the county is wet and alcohol is sold in liquor stores, bars and local vineyards. To the south of the Arkansas River, the county is dry. Franklin County was carved out of Crawford County in December 1837. At that time, Franklin"
"the committee of management. In 1977, Mount Franklin was included in the new Hepburn Regional Park and managed by the Forest Commission of Victoria. Mount Franklin is also the name of a mineral water producer owned by Coca-Cola Amatil believed by many residents of the area to have an association with the volcano. Neither the source of the water or any historical link with Mount Franklin, Victoria are mentioned on the Mount Franklin website. Mount Franklin (Victoria) Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano about 10 km north of Daylesford and 4.6 km south east of Franklinford in Victoria, Australia. A"
"the Capital Metro light rail, which is set to open in 2019. The suburb of Franklin includes a number of large open space to provide a pedestrian and cyclist network, and to provide an ecological corridor for the movement of native wildlife. In the , the population of Franklin was 6,419, including 75 (1.1%) Indigenous persons and 3,129 (49.2%) Australian-born persons. 11.1% were born in China, 7.2% in India, 2.9% in South Korea, 2.2% in Sri Lanka, and 2.2% in Vietnam. In the , 44.4% of the population was foreign born, the third highest for any Canberra suburb. Franklin is"
"Mount Franklin (Victoria) Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano about 10 km north of Daylesford and 4.6 km south east of Franklinford in Victoria, Australia. A road spirals round the outside slopes covered with pine trees, into a flat 50 acre caldera, now used as a camping ground, and onto the rim which hosts a fire lookout, parking area and picnic ground. Being a prominent local landmark, it gives its name to the Mount Franklin locality within the Shire of Daylesford and Glenlyon. The mountain is included within the boundaries of the Mount Franklin Reserve managed by Parks Victoria. The"
"Franklin Rock, an island in the Fraser River near Yale, British Columbia, named at the end of her visit there during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush; Lady Franklin Rock, near Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park in California; and Mount Lady Jane Franklin, a hill near Barnawartha in Northern Victoria, which she climbed on her trip from Port Phillip to Sydney in 1839. Jane Franklin Hall, a residential college in Hobart, Tasmania, is named in her honour, as is the art gallery mentioned above. The ballad ""Lady Franklin's Lament"" commemorated her search for her lost husband. Most of Lady Franklin's"
"It supports kindergarten to year 6 students, with the last year 7's leaving in 2014. Frankland, Western Australia Frankland is a small town in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. The town is in the shire of Cranbrook and is situated approximately 360 km from the State's capital, Perth, approximately 120 km north west of Albany, 83 km southwest of Kojonup, 19 km north of Rocky Gully and 90 km east of Manjimup. Frankland derives its name from its location 6 km east of the Frankland River. At the 2006 census, Frankland had a population of 380. Frankland River"
"major annual prize for literature about ""Australian Life in any of its phases"", the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman. Franklin was born at Talbingo, New South Wales, and grew up in the Brindabella Valley on a property called Brindabella Station. She was the eldest child of Australian-born parents, John Maurice Franklin and Susannah Margaret Eleanor Franklin, née Lampe, who was the great-granddaughter of Edward Miles (or Moyle) who had arrived with the First Fleet in the"
"Mount Franklin (Tasman) Mount Franklin is a peak in the Nelson Lakes National Park in the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is the northernmost - and highest - of New Zealand's four Mounts Franklin, located south of Lake Rotoroa in the. It is the highest peak in the Tasman Region, just two metres higher than the nearby Mount Travers. Mount Franklin is part of the Franklin Ridge, the northern extremity of the St James Range. The ridge separates the valleys of the east and west branches of the Sabine River. The mountain was named by Sir Julius von Haast"
"Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers is a national park in Tasmania, 117 km west of Hobart. It is named after the two main river systems lying within the bounds of the park - the Franklin River and the Gordon River. The Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park lies between the Central Highlands and West Coast Range of Tasmania in the heart of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It is bisected by the only road to pass through this area - the Lyell Highway. The genesis of the Wild Rivers National Park was in the earlier Frenchmans Cap"
"Franklin, Texas Franklin is a city and county seat of Robertson County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,564. Franklin lies near the geographic center of the county, on an upland prairie that is drained by the branches of three creeks. Touchstone Branch, to the north, runs westward into Mud Creek; South Mineral Creek drains waters eastward to the Navasota River; and the forks of Cedar Creek run to the south, passing Mount Pleasant, Henry Prairie and Wheelock. Franklin is located at (31.026222, -96.486086). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has"
"Franklin Island (Antarctica) Franklin Island is an island long, lying in the Ross Sea about east of Cape Hickey, Victoria Land. It was discovered on January 27, 1841 by James Clark Ross, and named for Sir John Franklin, the noted Arctic explorer, who as Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) had royally entertained the expedition on its way south at Hobart in 1840. Though located just north of Beaufort Island and appearing at first glance to be part of the same group, Franklin Island is not usually considered to be part of the Ross Archipelago. Franklin Island is the eroded"
"Franklin, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Franklin is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census the borough population was 323, down from 442 at the 2000 census. The borough's namesake is Benjamin Franklin. Sgt. Michael Strank, a Rusyn American and one of the US Marines pictured in the photograph ""Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"", was raised in Franklin. Franklin is located in southwestern Cambria County at (40.343073, -78.881873), in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River. The river forms the northwest boundary of the borough, with"
"Franklin, Alabama Franklin is a rural town in Macon County, Alabama, United States. The 2010 census placed the population at 149, unchanged from 2000. The Creek Indians (Muscogee people) had long been cultivating lands in this area, producing crops of maize, squash and beans (the Three Sisters), and tobacco, used primarily for ritual purposes. Osceola (1804-1838), who became well-known as a leader of the Seminole people in Florida, was born to a Creek woman at Red Creek, 10 miles from the Tallapoosa River. He was of mixed race but identified as Creek; the people have a matrilineal kinship system. Franklin"
"Australia and on other continents, so present rivers in those areas may have evolved from ancestral streams of equal and greater antiquity than the Finke. Finke River The Finke River is one of the largest rivers in central Australia. Its source is in the Northern Territory's MacDonnell Ranges, and the name Finke River is first applied at the confluence of the Davenport and Ormiston Creeks, just north of Glen Helen. From here the river meanders for approximately to the western edge of the Simpson Desert in northern South Australia. Usually the river is a string of waterholes, but it can"
"State of Franklin The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States. Franklin's first capital was Jonesborough. After the summer of 1785, the government"
"Franklin Lake Franklin Lake is a valley playa fed by the Franklin River in Elko County, Nevada, US. Located on the east side of the Ruby Mountains, it is southeast of the city of Elko, and is adjacent to the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. While mostly under private ownership, parts are owned by The Nature Conservancy and Bureau of Land Management; the Franklin Lake Wildlife Management Area is owned by the Nevada Department of Wildlife. The area's habitat, in size, consists of wetlands, an ephemeral lake, marshes, riparian woodland, alkali playa, shrub steppe, and grassland. ""Scirpus validus"" grows abundantly."